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Terms of Use

Last Updated on: 06 December, 2023

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Welcome to trayaan.com. The terms “Trayaan”, “trayaan.com”, “this website”, “our website”, “Site” or “Sites”, “we”, “us” or “our”, which are used throughout this document refer to the website trayaan.com, its subdomains, its other websites or services, its owners, the managers, and associates. The terms “you”, “your”, “visitor” or “user” refers to you, the user or the visitor of this website.

Acceptance of Terms

By visiting Trayaan, you agree to be bound by the following terms and conditions (including the Privacy Policy). We may change these terms and conditions at any time. Your continued use of Trayaan means that you accept any new or modified terms and conditions that we come up with. We encourage you to re-visit this this web page from time to time, to be updated of any changes.

Terms and conditions

The following are the terms and conditions that govern your use of Trayaan. By visiting and continuing to use Trayaan, you fully accept these terms and conditions.

Description of Service

Trayaan is a website or a group of websites or services with a broad array of web-enabled information and resources on travel, tour, trips, tips, perspectives, opinions, and related topics, including trayaan.com and it’s subdomains (the “Site” or “Sites”), any part or content or features of the Site, including but not limited to RSS feeds, APIs, and other features or downloads, or Trayaan’s newsletters, subscriptions or any other services (hereinafter termed as the "Service"). Any and all features, content, code or programming that augments, changes or enhances the Service, shall be subject to the Terms. You agree that the Service is provided "AS-IS" and that trayaan.com assumes no responsibility for any losses you incur as a result of failure on our part to make available any of the properties or services contemplated by these Terms, whether now in service or a future feature, service or property.

Your Acceptance

By using our Sites or Service, you agree, without limitation or qualification, to be bound by and to comply with these Terms of Use and Terms of Service as they may be amended from time to time, together with any other posted guidelines or rules applicable to any specific product or service. You will not use this website for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these Terms and Conditions. If you do not accept these Terms and Conditions you should not use or access the Sites or Service.

Trayaan may modify these Terms of Use, or any part thereof, or add or remove terms at any time, and such modifications, additions or deletions will be effective immediately as soon as it is updated here on this web page. Your use of our Site or Service after such changes or updates shall be deemed as your acceptance of such modifications, additions or deletions.

Restrictions on use of marks and materials

The Trademarks, names, marks and logos appearing on this website are, unless otherwise noted, are trademarks owned by or licensed to trayaan.com. Your use of these marks, except as provided in these Terms and Conditions, is prohibited. You are prohibited from using our trademarks without our express written consent. You are prohibited from using our trademarks in a misleading manner or for any purpose that may be deemed by us as a misuse of our trademarks. From time to time on this website, trayaan.com makes fair use of trademarks owned and used by third parties. trayaan.com makes no claim to ownership of such marks that are not owned by us.

The contents of Trayaan which is created or owned by us, such as text, graphics, images, pictures and any other media or content on this website, any scripts, codes, software or any other programs used to help or facilitate the functioning or features of our website (hereby collectively termed as the "Site Material") are protected by copyright laws. Unless otherwise mentioned, our Site Material is copyrighted material.

These Terms and Conditions do not grant you any licence whatsoever to the Site Material. trayaan.com authorises you to view and download a single copy of the Site Material for your non-commercial personal use only. Unauthorised use of the Site Material violates copyright, trademark, and other laws. You agree to retain all copyright and other proprietary notices contained in the original Site Material on any copy of such material.

Except as expressly provided herein, you may not sell, modify, copy, reproduce, republish, display, distribute, manipulate, upload, transmit or otherwise use the Site Material in any way, in any form, in any language, for any public, commercial or non-commercial purpose. Use of the Site Material on any other website, app, any form of online or offline platform, in print, or in a networked environment is prohibited. trayaan.com and its authors retain all intellectual property rights in the Site Material. Unauthorised usage, publication or redistribution of the content or Site Material in any form is strictly prohibited.

All materials on this website, unless otherwise noted, are owned by or licensed to Trayaan. On certain occasions, including, but not limited to, posts and articles, we may use an image or media which does not belong to us and has a different licence. We may also use third-party scripts or services to help or facilitate the functioning or features of our website. For example, an image having a Creative Commons licence. Such usage of external media will be notified along with the media in the article or post where it is used, including a link to its licence and attribution as required and if required by its author. trayaan.com makes no claim to ownership of such materials that are not owned by us.

Licence

trayaan.com hereby grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-assignable and non-transferable Licence to access trayaan.com provided and expressly conditioned upon your agreement that all such access and use shall be governed by all of the terms and conditions set forth in this User Agreement.

Licence to use trayaan.com: You may view, download for caching and purely personal viewing purposes only, and print pages from the website, provided that:

1. You must not act in a way that may cause harm to us or to a third party. You must not violate any laws, or violate any of our or any third party’s intellectual property or any other proprietary or legal rights. You must not attempt to or encourage or support anyone else's attempt to alter, modify, circumvent, reverse engineer, decrypt, or cause any obstacle or nuisance to our Service, or interfere with the proper functioning of our Service, or any Site Material or content of our Service, or make any unauthorised access or use of our Service.

2. You must not republish any Site Material or content on our Service in any form, (including, but not limited to, republication on another website, on any electronic or in printed form, in any language and in any format.), or reproduce or store material from this Service in any public or private electronic retrieval system.

3. You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell, or otherwise exploit any Site Material or content on our Service for any commercial or non-commercial purpose, without our express written consent.

4. You must not edit, manipulate, or modify any Site Material or content on our Service.

5. You must not use any automated tools to access, copy, scrape, or republish the Site Material or content of our Service. This includes, but not limited to, using any software programs or scripts or robots, spiders, services, manual or automatic tools to scrape, read or cache content in an automated manner for a purpose other than your personal viewing.

6. You must not use our Service or Site Material or content on our Service to train any "artificial intelligence" (AI) systems or any other machine learning or to develop any software programs or scripts.

7. You must not cause any disruptions in our Service or overload our or our service provider's network or infrastructure. You must not cause any damage or modifications to our Service.

8. You must not cache and archive Site Material or content on our Service. Public search engines are allowed to cache and archive only for the purpose of creating search indices.

9. You must not alter or modify the functioning or appearance of our Service or any Site Material or content on our Service, including any advertising. You must not use any technologies or applications which may facilitate such actions, while using or accessing our Service.

10. In the instances where you may be permitted to download a copy of our Site Material, you must not make any changes to or deletion of author attribution, trademark legends or copyright notices. You acknowledge that you do not acquire any ownership rights by downloading Site Material.

Violating the restrictions on the use of our Service or Site Material or violating our terms and conditions may result in legal penalties against the individuals who participate in such actions and also against those who help them to do so.

Limitation of Liability

TRAYAAN DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THIS WEBSITE WILL OPERATE ERROR-FREE OR THAT THIS WEBSITE AND ITS SERVERS OR ANY SERVERS THROUGH WHICH IT MAY BE SERVED ARE FREE OF COMPUTER VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL MATERIAL. IF YOUR USE OF THIS WEBSITE OR SITE MATERIAL RESULTS IN ANY COSTS OR EXPENSES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE NEED FOR SERVICING OR REPLACING EQUIPMENT OR DATA, TRAYAAN SHALL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THOSE COSTS OR EXPENSES.

THIS WEBSITE AND ITS MATERIAL ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AT YOUR OWN RISK" BASIS WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND. TRAYAAN, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, INCLUDING THE WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, NON-INFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTIES RIGHTS, AND THE WARRANTY OF FITNESS FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSE. ALTHOUGH TRAYAAN STRIVES TO PROVIDE THOROUGH AND ACCURATE MATERIALS ON THIS WEBSITE, WE MAKE NO WARRANTIES ABOUT THE ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, COMPLETENESS, OR TIMELINESS OF THE MATERIAL, SERVICES, SOFTWARE, TEXT, IMAGES, GRAPHICS, AND LINKS.

Disclaimer of Consequential Damages

IN NO EVENT SHALL TRAYAAN, ITS AFFILIATES, OR ANY THIRD PARTIES MENTIONED ON THIS WEBSITE BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, LOST PROFITS, OR DAMAGES RESULTING FROM LOST DATA OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) RESULTING FROM THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE MATERIAL ON THIS WEBSITE OR WEBSITES LINKED TO THIS WEBSITE, WHETHER BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, TORT, OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY, AND WHETHER OR NOT TRAYAAN IS ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

Indemnity

By using this website, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless trayaan.com, its owners, officers, directors, managers, employees and agents, from and against any and all losses, claims, damages, costs and expenses (including reasonable legal and accounting fees) that trayaan.com may become obligated to pay arising or resulting from your use of the Site Material or your breach of these Terms and Conditions. trayaan.com reserves the right to assume or participate, at your expense, in the investigation, settlement and defence of any such action or claim.

Advertisements and Promotions

Advertisers on trayaan.com or links to external websites through the advertisements:
trayaan.com may run advertisements and promotions from third parties on this website. trayaan.com does not endorse any advertiser on its web pages in any manner. trayaan.com is not responsible for any errors, omissions or representations in the advertisements or on any of the advertiser's pages. trayaan.com is not responsible for any links in the dynamically served advertisements, any of the linked external websites or external web pages of the advertisers, and any of the content in those advertiser's websites. Your business dealings or correspondence with, or participation in promotions of, advertisers through the advertisements on trayaan.com, and any terms, conditions, warranties or representations associated with such dealings, are solely between you and such third party. Users are requested to verify the accuracy of all information on their own before undertaking any reliance on such information in the advertisements. trayaan.com is not responsible or liable for any loss or damage of any sort incurred as the result of any such dealings or as the result of the presence of third-party advertisers on this website.

Dealings with Third Parties, Including Advertisers

Your contact and dealings with third parties and advertisers, including, but not limited to Your participation in promotions and contests, found on or through the Service, including payment and delivery of related goods or services and any other terms, conditions, warranties or representations associated with such dealings, are solely between you and such third party or advertiser. You agree that trayaan.com, shall not be liable or responsible for any loss or damage that you may suffer as a result of such dealings or as the result of the presence of such third parties or advertisers on the Service.


Links to external websites

trayaan.com contains links to websites owned by third parties, which we call “external links”. These links to third-party websites or “external websites” are provided solely as a convenience to you and are not an endorsement by trayaan.com of those other websites or their contents.

These external links, or links to external websites, are included for various reasons, like for example:
To provide a link to further relevant or useful information on the subject matter, for further reading on the subject matter, or for citing a source of information by providing references to the source.
We may also link to external websites to provide credits or acknowledgements for any material used which is sourced from a third-party, for example, an image, either for the requirement of the licence or just to credit the source.
External links are selected and included by our authors or team to help you find more relevant related content.
External links may be included in the posts, pages, RSS feeds and other contents of our Service. External links may be included in embedded contents such as embedded tweets, videos, or maps, as a part of such embedded contents. Beyond this website, there may also be links to external websites in our newsletters or social media pages on handles, such as on Facebook, Twitter, or Koo, for example.

These external links are not advertisements, and trayaan.com does not link to external websites in return for cash or services, as an affiliation, or for any other considerations.

The linked external websites are not under the control of trayaan.com and trayaan.com is not responsible for the contents of any linked external website or any link contained in a linked external website, or any changes or updates to such websites. trayaan.com is providing such external links to you only as a convenience and the inclusion of links to external websites does not imply the endorsement of such external websites by trayaan.com.

We always try to ensure that we only use and cite or refer to valid or authentic sources and try to ensure with the best of our efforts that such sources are authentic and reliable, and only link to such external sources, but we cannot provide a guarantee for any of the external sources as they are not owned or controlled by us.

In addition to the above, there may be user-generated links to external websites. Although we may allow some links if they are relevant and do not violate our Comment Policy, Terms of Use, and Privacy Policy, any such user-generated links to external websites are not endorsements by us and should not be mistaken for an endorsement and we cannot guarantee and we are not responsible for the contents or material found on any external websites that is linked through this website.

Trayaan is not responsible for the contents of any external websites linked through our Sites and Service and makes no representations regarding the content or accuracy of materials on such external websites.

By using Trayaan, you acknowledge and agree that Trayaan is not responsible for the availability, accuracy, or reliability of external websites or resources, and Trayaan does not endorse and is not responsible or liable for any content, advertising, products, or other materials on or available or acessible on such external websites or resources that are linked through this website.

Further, you acknowledge and agree that Trayaan shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with your use of or reliance on any such content, goods or services available on or through any such external website or resource. If you visit any third-party or external websites through the links on this website, you do so at your own risk. Consult the Uniform Resources Locator ("URL") address identified in your browser to determine whether you have linked to a third-party or an external website.

Mentions and Reviews

We may sometimes on Trayaan, mention a name and provide reviews or some details of a place of stay such as, a hotel, resort, home stay, or any other kind of accommodation (hereafter mentioned as "places of stay") that we stay at during our travels and journeys, and also solely for the sake of providing information in case of the "places of stay" that we haven't stayed at ourselves. We may also mention a name and provide reviews or details of places where food or drinks are served, such as, a restaurant, eatery, cafeteria, bar, or any other kind of food serving outlets (hereafter mentioned as "places serving food"). We may also mention a name and provide reviews or details of places that provide recreation or entertainment activities like sports, cinema, or any other places that provide recreational or entertainment activities (hereafter mentioned as "places of recreation"). We may also mention the modes of travel we took when we travelled. We may also suggest some of the same based on our own travel experiences (hereafter mentioned as "modes of transportation"), which can be roadways, railways, airways, or any other modes or means of travel which is run by any entity — either government or private. We may also review these "modes of transportation" in our posts or articles on this website.

In our posts, we may review apps or various products related to travel and those which you may use while travelling (including, but not limited to, mobile phones, clothing, travel gear, travel related apps, mosquito repellents, food products, hygiene products, etc.) so as to provide you with information about their usefulness in travelling and also some tips on using them. In some cases, an entire article or post can be dedicated to the review itself, or they can even be included in, but not limited to, our travel tips, travel tools, travel news or perspectives posts. We only review those products or apps which we have ourselves used, or suggest based on our own experience with them so as to give you honest and helpful opinions and information. These tips or information can be regarding any product or any software application (hereafter mentioned as "products and apps") are included in our posts or articles only as a convenience and help to you and they are not a promotional campaign of any sort for the apps or products that we review, and does not imply endorsement.


All the inclusions, mentions, and reviews of the aforementioned "places of stay", "places of food", "places of recreation", "modes of transportation", "products and apps", or any other types of mentions or reviews in our articles or posts are hereafter collectively referred to in this document as "Mentions And Reviews".

The Mentions And Reviews on Trayaan do not imply endorsements, and they do not imply that we're affiliated to them in any way, and they are not advertisements. We do not get paid in cash, or receive any kind of favour by these "Mentions and Reviews". We do not endorse any such "Mentions and Reviews". They are included in the articles or posts Trayaan just as a part of our overall tours and travel experiences, and to provide you relevant and useful information along with the reviews about all that constitute these Mentions And Reviews.

We may, in some rare cases, include pictures of these Mentions And Reviews in our posts or articles. These are also not endorsements, and are not paid promotions. These are also just part of our overall tours and travel experiences, and should not be mistaken for endorsements or promotions.

In case we undertake any paid or promotional reviews for any Mentions And Reviews in the future, then those will be clearly mentioned as a note in the particular post itself, or it will be duly updated here, in our Terms of Use, or on any other page on Trayaan assigned for the purpose of such disclosures.

Some "places of stay", "places of food", "places of recreation", "modes of transport", "products and apps", or any other types that constitute the above mentioned Mentions And Reviews, may appear as advertisements in our posts. Such appearances are not to be confused with our Mentions and Reviews, and such appearances fall into the category of Advertisements, which are served dynamically. Please refer to the above Advertisements section in our Terms of use regarding this.

Disclaimer for the information provided on Trayaan

As mentioned in our General Disclaimer, for your benefit, we make best possible efforts to provide useful information about a place/location/region that we come across in our travels,and also review and provide information on a variety of products, places of stay, places of food, and places of recreation, etc., or as aforementioned, "Mentions and Reviews". We make best possible efforts to keep the information we provide accurate, as far as rationally possible, but we give no guarantee for the information we provide, as despite our best efforts, there are chances of errors or discrepancies in the information.

By using Trayaan you acknowledge that you are solely responsible for verifying and using the information provided in Trayaan. By using Trayaan and the information it provides, you agree and acknowledge that Trayaan is not responsible for any kind of liabilities, damages or losses that occur from following the given information.

Advice

The contents or information on Trayaan do not constitute advice and should not be relied upon in making or refraining from making, any decision.

Content changes and modification

Trayaan reserves the right to change, modify, add or remove (temporarily or permanently) the Sites or Service (partially or completely), without notice and you acknowledge that Trayaan shall not be liable to you for any such changes, modifications, additions or removals.

Severance

If any of these Terms and Conditions should be determined to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable for any reason by any court of competent jurisdiction then such Term or Condition shall be severed and the remaining Terms and Conditions shall survive and remain in full force and effect and continue to be binding and enforceable.

Disclaimer

You understand and agree that any material and/or data downloaded or otherwise obtained through the use of trayaan.com is done entirely at your own risk and discretion, and you will solely be responsible for any damage to your computer systems or loss of data that results from the download or use of such material and/or data. However, trayaan.com will always strive to ensure that the content on its websites or other information channels are free of any virus or any malware.

User Content

"User Content" or "user-generated content" is the content (text/media) generated by you or the user(/s) of this website. Currently, the User Content is limited to the comments submitted by you on this website on the commenting platform. The user of this website is solely responsible for any and all of their respective User Content. We do not control User Content, and you acknowledge and agree that we are not responsible for any User Content and we make no guarantees regarding the accuracy, currency, suitability, or quality of any User Content, and we assume no responsibility for any User Content. Your interactions with other users on this website are solely between you and such user. You agree that trayaan.com will not be responsible for any loss or damage incurred by you or any user as a result of any such interactions. We are under no obligation to become involved in a dispute between you and any user. You acknowledge that trayaan.com has no obligation to monitor or delete any such derogatory User Content which other users may post about your User Content.

Comments and Feedback:

trayaan.com welcomes your comments and feedback on our website; however, you acknowledge that if you send us creative suggestions, ideas, recipes, notes, drawings, concepts, experiences, inventions or other information, (collectively, the "Feedback Information"), the Feedback Information shall be deemed, and shall remain the property of trayaan.com. By submission of any Feedback Information to us, you assign to us and we shall own exclusively all rights to such information of every kind and nature.

Commenting:
Users are advised to read our Comment Policy before commenting. The conditions for Commenting on trayaan.com are that: You must not restrict or inhibit any other user from using the comment forms. You must not post or transmit any unlawful, threatening, abusive, libellous, defamatory, obscene, vulgar, pornographic, profane or indecent information of any kind, including without limitation any transmissions constituting or encouraging conduct that would constitute a criminal offence, give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any local, state, national or international law. You must not post or publish any comment or material that includes any personally identifiable information about any individual, whether it belongs to yourself or any other individual. You must not post or transmit any information, code or other material which violates or infringes upon the rights of others, including material which is an invasion of privacy or publicity rights or which is protected by copyright, trademark or other proprietary right, or derivative works with respect thereto, without first obtaining permission from the owner or right holder, post or transmit any information, code or other material which contains a virus or other harmful component. You must not post, transmit or in any way exploit any information, code or other material for commercial purposes. You must not use the comment boards on trayaan.com for posting or publishing comments or any material which contains advertising.

If you violate such terms, trayaan.com may, without prior notice and without liability to you, forbid you from any and use of this website, delete your uploaded comments, and take any other action trayaan.com deems appropriate in its sole discretion. trayaan.com reserves the right to allow or remove any comment on its comment boards as it deems appropriate in its sole discretion. trayaan.com reserves the right to discontinue allowing the commenting option at any time in its sole discretion, without prior notice and without liability to you.

Every comment entered on trayaan.com will be moderated. Any forms of hate-speech, indecent remarks, and any unlawful, threatening, abusive, libellous, defamatory, obscene, vulgar, pornographic, profane comments, or any comments that trayaan.com deems inappropriate will be moderated or completely deleted at the sole discretion of trayaan.com. Also, comments made with a fake/false i.d. or comments posted as impersonating any of the Authors at trayaan.com or any other visitor or user, will be removed. We try our best to keep our comment sections free of abusive and derogatory comments but we cannot guarantee a 100% effective moderation at all times.